I have a sony vaio, with the dreaded gma500, but have never bothered about it as I don't do anything graphically intensive, just browse the web a bit, which lupu suits me fine. But, after your post, I followed Tempestuous's thread, and did the following:

6) Opened /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and confirmed that Driver "fbdev" #card0driver line was there, then altered instances of 1360 to 1366.

Installing Xorg_High-1.1-Lucid.pet, and running, in a console, glxgears, before and after above procedure, showed increase from about 110 frames to 650... definitely no good for high end stuff, but an improvement.

Yes, I reiterate that uvesafb/fbdev is non-accelerated. Its value is to get you a clean, workable display.
If the vesa Xorg driver is already working with your GMA500 display, there's usually no need (and no benefit) to install uvesafb/fbdev.

That muggins got an improved result from glxgears after installing Xorg-high is an unexpected win. So in this case, uvesafb/fbdev really IS a performance improvement over vesa.

I am having a hell of a time getting this working. I could be just making a mistake (I am new to linux).

I have followed the directions as closely as I know how... any help would be appreciated but when I go to probe a.) my new option is not there b.) any other option just causes it not to be able to load xwin again. Sadly with vesa I get a horrible res of 800x576 when I should be able to get 1024x576.

Once you have disabled the vesa driver, configured xorg.conf to use the fbdev driver, and exited the Xserver back to the command prompt,
all you should need to do is load the uvesafb kernel module with the correct parameters (your "mode_option=" values)
then just run "xwin" to relaunch X.
It should not be necessary to re-run the xorgwizard, and in fact, this may cause complications.

muggins wrote:

6) Opened /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
...
then altered instances of 1360 to 1366.

I don't think the resolution settings in xorg.conf make any difference - the uvesafb kernel module (which is loaded prior to X being launched) should force Xorg to use the resolution specified by its "mode_option=" values.

lindberg1343, it's near-impossible for me to help you, but it sounds like you have missed some steps.
Just go back and follow my initial instructions carefully ... especially the part about loading the uvesafb module once you have exited X.

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